Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Not only are such moves ineffective, a drop in trade relations could leave India worse off Chinese goods, boycott of Chinese goods, Ladakh standoff, boycott of Chinese products, atmanirbharta, lockdowns, MSMEs, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reddy’s Laboratories, covid-19 pandemic Following the border standoff in Ladakh, there has been a clamour for Indians to boycott products from China, which is seen as the unreasonable aggressor.
The outrage has been particularly pronounced on social media, with hashtags like #BoycottChina and #BoycottChineseProducts trending on Twitter.
This comes just weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for atmanirbharta gave self-reliance the status of a national mission.